A year and a half on from Flame 1, The Bug and Burial come through with the follow-up. The basic premise remains unchanged on Flame 2, with the ones born Kevin Martin and William Bevan offering up a pair of tracks that will seriously test the capacity of the club’s bass bins. Both ‘Dive’ and ‘Rain’ also come cloaked in the same gritty, cavernous reverb that was all over Flame 1’s ‘Fog’ and ‘Shrine’.
TweetDJ Shadow has released his first new music since 2017. “Rocket Fuel” featuring De La Soul via Mass Appeal Records. “Rocket Fuel” is a hard-charging reemergence for DJ Shadow, long celebrated as a pivotal artist in experimental, instrumental hip-hop. The song explodes with stacks of vocal samples, horns, Shadow’s dazzling DJ scratch work and a muscular performance from the legendary rap crew.
TweetAn alcoholic and a drug addict, 23 year-old James has two options: treatment or death. After waking up on a plane with a smashed up face and no memory of the past few weeks, he heads to rehab where he discovers much more than detox and therapy. As James endures the white-knuckle journey of mending his broken body, he heals his broken soul by connecting with other kindred spirits who also yearn and fight for a better life.
Based on the book by James Frey with a screenplay by Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Sam Taylor-Johnson.
In theatres August 30th, 2019
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TweetIt’s 1968 in America. Change is blowing in the wind…but seemingly far removed from the unrest in the cities is the small town of Mill Valley where for generations, the shadow of the Bellows family has loomed large. It is in their mansion on the edge of town that Sarah, a young girl with horrible secrets, turned her tortured life into a series of scary stories, written in a book that has transcended time—stories that have a way of becoming all too real for a group of teenagers who discover Sarah’s terrifying home.
Based on the children’s book series of the same name by Alvin Schwartz.
In theatres August 23rd, 2019
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TweetThe Loaded Brush is an in-depth exhibition focusing on this seminal period of Roy Lichtenstein’s career which follows numerous historic and institutional shows in the United States, brings together rarely seen works that span major figurative and abstract paintings, sculptures, collages and drawings. Together, the brushstroke sculptures and paintings constitute a significant portion of the artist’s oeuvre and demonstrate some of the guiding interests of Lichtenstein’s ongoing artistic development across a variety of materials.
A highlight of the exhibition, now exhibited for the first time in Europe, is one of Roy Lichtenstein’s most daringly expressive works: Artemis and Acteon (1987), inspired by Titian’s masterful rendering of the Greek myth painted in 1556–1559.
Opposite – Artemis and Acteon, 1987
Exhibition runs through to September 28th, 2019
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac
Villa Kast
Mirabellplatz 2
5020 Salzburg
Austria
The legendary Fletcher family has been an institution and guiding presence in surf and skate culture for decades, with an influence that extends to the worlds of fashion, music, streetwear, and art. Now, Fletcher: A Lifetime in Surf, written by Dibi Fletcher—wife of Herbie and matriarch of what Esquire has called “surfing’s first family”—simultaneously traces the evolution of the Fletcher family’s life and offers an oral history of surfing’s counterculture from the 1950s to today.
Throughout the volume, the family’s intimate storyline is augmented with anecdotes from luminaries including surfing legend Gerry Lopez, Mike Diamond of the Beastie Boys, artist Julian Schnabel, eleven-time world champion pro surfer Kelly Slater, and Steve Van Doren, of the Vans skate shoe company. Dibi’s recollections begin with her childhood memories of her father, big-wave surfing pioneer Walter Hoffman. She then goes on to narrate her union with Herbie, as well as the lives of their sons Christian and Nathan, both surfers, and their grandson, Greyson, a renowned skateboarder, all of whom have erased the boundaries between surfing and skateboarding.
Opposite – Wrecktangle #12, 2014
Exhibition runs through to August 30th, 2019
Gagosian
976 Madison Avenue
NY 10075
New York
